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Over the years we've collected and quoted her poetry, read obscure books about her life, watched documentaries & plays about her, & tacked photo postcards of Emily on our bulletin boards.
Of course we have both made the pilgrimage to the Dickinson homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts. My sister has made this sojourn twice.
The highlight of the trip for Jennifer was to procure a charcoal rubbing of Emily's gravestone. This morbid display hung on her bedroom wall for some years! (true love)
I enjoyed the tour of the homestead. As I walked about the creaky 19th century floorboards I thought: "Here I walk upon the same floor that Emily walked upon!"
Also memorable was to see a white dress of Emily's, encased in glass, in the foyer of her house. A small pocket was sewn into one side of the dress. The lore is that while baking or tending to household duties, if Emily thought of a snatch of poetry, she'd scribble it down for later editing.
Emily Dickinson--- the Belle of Amherst, an iconoclast, a dour recluse dressed like a schoolmarm, a diminutive woman, ----and undoubtedly one of our greatest American poets.
Below is a very few of her over 1700 poems:
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I reason, Earth is short --
And Anguish -- absolute --
And many hurt,
But, what of that?
I reason, we could die --
The best Vitality
Cannot excel Decay,
But, what of that?
I reason, that in Heaven --
Somehow, it will be even --
Some new Equation, given --
But, what of that?
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We play at Paste --
Till qualified, for Pearl --
Then, drop the Paste --
And deem ourself a fool --
The Shapes -- though -- were similar --
And our new Hands
Learned Gem-Tactics --
Practicing Sands --
If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain.
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Greek | Skaios | ill fated |
Norwegian | Ventrehandsarbeid (left-hand work) | Sloppy or unsatisfactory |
Latin | sinister | Left-handed |
Irish Gaelic | ciotog | Strange person |
French | gauche | Awkward, clumsy |
Portuguese | canhoto | Devil |
German | linkisch | awkward |
Chinese | zuo | improper |
English | Left-handed compliment | A veiled insult |
English | Two left feet | An awkward dancer |
In 1963 (the year you were born) |
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president of the US A civil rights rally held by 200,000 blacks and whites, features Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech President John F. Kennedy is assassinated as he rides in a motorcade through downtown Dallas Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique, launching a middle-class feminist movement Michael Jordan, Quentin Tarantino, Conan O'Brien, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt are born Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series The Beatles receive their first #1 hit single, when "Please Please Me" tops the charts in the UK NBC expands its evening network news program to 30 minutes The television remote control is authorized by the FCC |
Your Drag Queen Name Is: |
Weekend Update
This just in....
SCIENTISTS UNVEIL NEANDERTHALS' DNA CODE
THE ANARCHY TIMES POST-POST
A team of American and German geneticists announced this week that the Neaanderthals' DNA code will be completely mapped within two years. If the project is successful, questions long plaguing the scientific community and the world will soon be definitively answered:
1. How long ago did the Neanderthals separate from the human line? and
2. (the sexy question) Did the Neanderthals and modern humans (Cro-Magnon) intermingle?
Only 2% of the DNA sample has been mapped so far, but oddly enough, geneticists have already identified marked and striking similarities between the Neanderthal DNA and the DNA of certain Republicans from Texas. Amazing, glaring, shared traits are as follows:
1. over-barbecues meatsHOW GAY AM I?
Well, that's a burning question that's bugged me for awhile. How Gay am I? Can I hang curtains? Do I know all the lyrics to South Pacific? Do I wear tighty whities?
Or, would I rather oil my wrench set? Paint my fingernails?
All these queries an be EASILY answered by taking this short, yet incredibly scientifically sound, informative quiz:
Find out just how gay you are with the Channel 4 Gay-O-Meter http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/G/gayometer/gayometer.html
BTW, I'm 46% gay, which makes me a well-adjusted, lesbian babe. Go figure.
But listen to the wise, little, Jewish, Man.
"It Could Be Worse!!
Pick your favorite:
1. Frances McDormand
as Marge Gunderson in Fargo (1996)
2. Lili Taylor
as Valerie Jean Solanas in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
Okay, so I know they’re only cartoon heads propped up on top of plastic sticks filled with candy, BUT, some people collect them, some people see deep meaning in them. Some people think they're fun.
SO.....
IF five pez dispensers were to rule the world, here are my choices, with a few sound reasons why these five characters would serve our planet well.
See our fair maidens below.
Ashes To Ashes
by David Bowie -1980
do you remember a guy that's been
in such an early song
i heard a rumour from ground control
oh no, don't say it's true
they got a message from the action man
i'm happy hope you're happy too
i've loved all i've needed love
sordid details following
the shrieking of nothing is killing
just pictures of jap girls in synthesis
and i ain't got no money and and i ain't got no hair
but i'm hoping to kick but the planet is glowing aglow aglow
ashes to ashes funk to funky
we know major tom's a junky
strung out on heaven's high
hitting an all time low
time and again i tell myself
i'll stay clean tonight
but the little green wheels are following me
oh no not again
i'm stuck with a valuable friend
i'm happy hope you're happy too
one flash of light
but no smoking pistol
i've never done good things
i've never done bad things
i never did anything out of the blue
want an axe to break the ice
want to come down right now
ashes to ashes funk to funky
we know major tom's a junky
strung out on heaven's high
hitting an all time low
my mama said to get things done
you better not mess with major tom
my mama said to get things done
you better not mess with major tom
my mama said to get things done
you better not mess with major tom
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